Our guiding principle has been to foster a new paradigm of participatory research.
In our view,sociocultural and economic drivers,along with herdersâ experience-based knowledge,gain equal currency in the effort to understand how management may mitigate against the negative aspects of the challenges modern herding faces, while also exploring concepts of sustainability from different perspectives (see also Jernsletten and Klokov 2002; Kankaanpää et al. This broadening of the pool of disciplines and local,national,and int- national stakeholders in policy-relevant research invariably complicates v- tually all aspects of the research process. , plants, insects, predators, climate, and others. The findings presented in this volume represent a concerted effort to develop a more inclusive form of reindeer management for northernmost Europe.